The director Joel Schumacher, known for his hit '80s movies 'The Lost Boys' and 'St. Elmo's Fire,' died Monday morning in New York City from cancer. He was 80 years old.
St. Elmo's FireAs his career grew, so did the budgets for his movies, culminating in the two Batman movies. There was a campiness in them, with Schumacher playing up certain aspects of the Batman mythos: the goofy costumes, the corny jokes calling back to the Adam West TV era of the character, and the erotic tension between Batman and his sidekick Robin.
"I had a lot of fun with it. Since you always get asked if that's the case with them, I thought, well, I might as well play it up to — somewhat," he said in the Fresh Air interview. "And I over-exaggerated all the sexuality in my Batman movies — you know, the men and the women are sort of 'oversteroided' sexually because I thought it was better to play into it than try to pretend it wasn't there.
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